The earth is round

Posted on March 22, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |

Eduardo Pontaoe 
datdosapang@yahoo.com 
22 Mar 2006 

With all due respect, Mr. de Vera, you do work for the city. When you encouraged people to invest in Dagupan, technically you are involved. You could be liable for misrepresentation in what would be perceived as a scam. In other words, you are an accessory to the crime. 

Now, we go to the piece de resistance. I cannot have you travel with me into the world of Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Hawking. It’s too strenuous. 

Your said verbatim; Galileo is a scientist, astronomer and physicist, his is only a theory but Columbus who actually sailed and proved it. 
You are right on the former, on the latter, no. 

The theory that Galileo proved that it was the truth, was not his, but the Heliocentric Theory or sun-centered theory of Nikola Kopernik or Copernicus, that the sun is the center of the universe. It circumvented the geocentric theory of Aristotle that the earth is the center of the universe. 

According to this theory of Copernicus, circular bodies revolved around the sun with elliptical orbits according to the assertions of Johannes Kepler which was proven true. 

With the used of a refracting telescope he invented, Galileo’s observations convinced him of the truth of Copernicus Heliocentric Theory and later findings that bodies in elliptical rotations around the sun must be round or circular according to the dictates of the law of gravity of Newton. 

So, before Columbus sailed into the darkness of exploration, technically the earth was already round like a ball. 

Well, let me be explicit Mr. de Vera. It was not Columbus who really proved the earth is round, in layman’s term, it was Magellan. He was the first person who circumnavigated the globe proving the earth is round though it was a known fact in that century that the earth was rightly so. 

Let me give an example why Columbus did not prove the earth is round. He crisscrossed the Atlantic four times without changing course, from Spain to the New World and back in the same waters. 

Magellan left Seville in 1519, went southward and passed the tip of South America and arrived at Cebu in 1521 where he was killed but reached the eastern edge of the known world and his men completed the voyage back to Seville. The earth is round, Mr. de Vera. 

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